Early voting begins Sat. for municipal primariesEarly voting begins Saturday, March 22 for the April 5 municipal primary election.Polling places open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. On the ballot will be: •Natchitoches City Council: District 3. (V...

Jewelry sale funds RelayLibby Kirkland, left, and Shirley Starr, will be at First United Methodist Church of Natchitoches Friday and Saturday when the Relay for Life team has its jewelry fundraiser. The times are Friday f...

District 9 Fire to decide tax millageFire Protection District #9 will hold a public meeting April 22, 2014 at 7 p.m. at the District #9 Station, located at 218 Edenborn St. in Campti for the purpose of levying the millage tax rate for...

Grant money up for grabsInternational Paper provides more than $10 million to support thousands of charitable organizations in the communities where employees live and work through company contributions and foundation gra...

Sheriff’s office focusing on school shootersThank goodness they were not the magnitude of Columbine and Sandy Hook. But there have been at least 28 school or school-related acts of violence in the United States just since the beginning of th...

Park called piece of community developmentBuses sputter to a stop. Kids in uniform shirts, different colors indicating age and school, gallop down the steps. A boy stands on tiptoe to check the mail, grinning as he runs to the adult waitin...

Students create Mardi Gras floatsBrenda Powell and Krista Sklar’s third grade class at St. Mary’s completed a study of Louisiana cultures and traditions. Students ended their study by creating Mardi Gras floats. Each student creat...

LSMSA computer science instructor laudedAn instructor from the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts was recently announced as a recipient of the Aspirations in Computing Educator Award presented by the National Center for Wom...

St. Mary's students read Anne FrankStudents in Liz Miller’s seventh grade English language arts class at St. Mary’s are reading the novel, “Anne Frank-The Diary of a Young Girl.” They are studying the Holocaust and events surroundin...

Insurance marketplace to close March 31Uninsured individuals seeking health care coverage can apply before the close of the federal insurance marketplace Monday, March 31. If you haven’t enrolled in an insurance plan before the close of...

Planning and zoning releases permit recordsPlanning and zoning director Juanita Fowler issued the permit statistics for the month of February. The City issued a total of 41 permits and collected $1,795.50 in fees. Permits included nine resi...

Tourist Comm. agrees to $10,000 payoutDoors were closed at an executive session of the Tourist Commission Tuesday, March 11. Board members discussed the pending litigation from Iris Harper, a former executive director whose contract wa...